Crossword-Solution: AVOCATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Avocation | n. | A calling away; a diversion. |
| Avocation | n. | That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation. |
| Avocation | n. | Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “AVOCATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CALLING (colloq.) | 1 answer |
| Something on the side | 1 answer |
| minor occupation | 1 answer |
| Sideline. | 17 answers |
| Hobby | 17 answers |
| Pursuit | 23 answers |
| Occupa-tion | 32 answers |
| Diversion | 46 answers |
| Occupant | 54 answers |
| Activity | 66 answers |
| Vocation | 68 answers |
| Profes-sion | 69 answers |
| Undertaking | 71 answers |
| AMUSEMENT ___ | 72 answers |
| distraction | 76 answers |
| CALLING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVOCATION (5)
There were many breaks in his education, caused by the migratory habits of his tribe, but even when removed from his books his active brain continued to search out the mysteries of his fascinating avocation.
Gilbert was aware of this, and felt that quite possibly his host was prouder of his whimsical avocation as gourmet than of his sacred profession as a bookman.
What was to become of him? What could he do? He set his wits to work; but he found that he was incapable of plying any kind of avocation.
Your very gravedigger has forgotten his avocation in his electorship, and would quibble on the Franchise over Ophelia’s grave, instead of more appropriately discussing the duration of bodies under ground.
This incident gives me an opportunity to say that observation has convinced me that all good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed.
Quotes with AVOCATION (3)
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper. (And if you ever think otherwise, then you've turned into an arrogant self-satisfied prat, and should look for another job or another avocation or another weekend activity.) So you have to lear…
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight.
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1969–2022).